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Waning Light

by All In Vain

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1.
Despair 04:25
Everything that's beautiful is condemned to be torn apart With this knowledge how can I see the beauty in anything? Is knowledge power when you have no power or is it just crippling despair? We're slipping into fascism but nobody seems to care Hard lessons should have been learned but it seems that they're soon forgotten Or are they just being ignored, pretend those things don't happen anymore But it is happening right now, payed not to see for such a small price Illusion of security, plastic culture devoid of life Overwhelmed with despair Captive tied to a chair I feel so alone Got no hope In this life we will all be betrayed, I can't sleep with these thoughts in my head I'm questioning the people that I want to trust, is this me or is this the system? Fucking with our heads, this is relentless, if they're in our heads they've already won Crippled by all my guilt and confusion, fail to see what can be done Our friends they will slip away and we won't see them go Just pay a passing thought every once in a while, wondering what path they chose And if we try to get in touch we will find out what they did They did what thousands of others did, gave up hope and the will to live
2.
Nightmare 04:26
An imperfect family on a warm summers night The windows and doors all open, ignore the signs a storm is coming Our gaze is drawn to the thermometer in the kitchen Watch as the level plummets and it shatters into pieces At first in was amusing as the room filled up with flies Mosquitos and moths, they swarmed around the room As they bounce off the walls they sound like a clock ticking too fast But then the fear crept in, rising from my belly Then the house was torn asunder by an invisible force It grabbed me by the ankles, tore me away from the ground And I clutched onto your hand in a state of complete terror Said "please don't let go I love you and I don't wanna die". But the force tore us apart, swept me up into the sky Awaken in a panic, see your silhouette close by It's just a hallucination, just a hallucination A remnant of this fucking nightmare Shiver as the cold creeps over my body Ominous feeling that my brain's trying to tell me something It is just a nightmare, it is just a nightmare It's a sign the end is near.
3.
Fallow 05:43
Illusive delusions, lacking clarity Of the creature that I want to be Drowning in my own helplessness I am weak and I hate myself for this Thick mists envelope this barren plain I know these weary eyes will never see the sun again The cold bitter winds are biting at my skin Another loser in a game that no one ever wins Encroaching darkness, waning light Bright Phoebus has left us in this starless night Encroaching darkness, waning light Poisonous wind, the reapers scythe We're stranded in this desolate wasteland Forgotten are the ideals for which I used to stand Betrayed by my former self, abandoned and lost There's nowhere left to run I cannot escape the frost I could hear it decaying, I could see it decaying But I lay fallow and watched everything die I was watching from the distance, I was watching from the precipice But I lay fallow and watched everything die We're biting at the hand that feeds Muffle the screams with the drone of industry My own mother was on her knees I did nothing, now there's no one left to hear my own screams
4.
The sounds that once Reverberated Through this house Have long since faded Reduced to the occasional creek in the floorboards That are laden with dust And strips of the peeling wallpaper And sharps of glass From the windows that broke long ago And as we stand here On either side of the room The distance between us it could not be greater The memories we shared have all been corrupted By the poison we hold in ours minds They've been mutated and twisted Far from the truth, we forgot the meaning of that word We're far from who we once were Far from what we once were Far from the truth, we forgot the meaning of that word We just stare as the ground breaks open and consumes what's left of this house This empty decaying shell Sucked into the infertile ground We just lie as our hearts break open and release a torrent of pain That penetrates the numbness of our brains Pretend not to see we feel the same Pretend everything is OK. Everything is OK.
5.
Roots 05:51
Burrowing underneath the trees, obsessing over roots Filthy in the foliage, tunneling into tombs There's no life without death, there's no life without death Obsessed with the beginning, obsessed with end Diving into the deep stagnant murky pools Water engulfs my body, it's slimy and cold There's no life without death, there's no life without death Obsessed with the ancient, obsessed with the end Magnet embedded in my forehead My gaze is cast downwards forever more There's blossom on the trees and pollen in the air But I do not see it, I just stare down at the floor Spend my days cowering from the golden orb Filled with contempt for its blinding light I wish I could be rid of its exposing glare Lurking in the shadows, waiting for it to disappear The silver orb rises, in loneliness I roam Weeping for the hardness of this cruel world Searching for a refuge where the day-star cannot follow Where my wilted soul can finally unfurl Embraced by the mist as I ascend this lonely mountain Staggering up the brook into a grimy cave Worm my way like a maggot deep under the hills Vanish from all knowledge, never seen again Entombed in the mountain, obsessing over roots Filthy in the dark pools and long forgotten tombs There's no life without death, no pleasure without pain Fermenting in this dark, dank, earthy womb.

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released July 12, 2019

Ash: Banjo, guitar, vocals.
Dandy: Accordion, vocals.
Ellen: Violin, vocals.
Sam: Bouzouki, drums, vocals.

All songs by All In Vain.
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Ash.
Album art by As het kunstenaresj

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Banjo-driven følkened crüst with rowdy, stompy, Anarcho thrashers to slow, emotional, doomy dirges.

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